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Badenoch spends 9 days banging on about how the UK should join the war with Trump. Then she U-turns and denies she ever said the UK should join the war with Trump The big question is: are we ready in the UK for this level of denial of the evidence of our ears? Are we as dumb as the US electorate?

🔴Boris Johnson’s Radon Gas Filled Prison Deal to Cost Taxpayers £100 Million Full costs of the botched agreement to lease an unusable prison filled with poisonous gas from the Duchy of Cornwall, revealed for the first time bylinetimes.com/2026/01/07/b...

Boris Johnson's Radon Gas Filled Prison Deal to Cost Taxpayers £100 Million

The full costs of the botched agreement to lease an unusable prison filled with poisonous gas from the Duchy of Cornwall, revealed for the first time

bylinetimes.com

Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars. OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.

Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI

Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.

theatlantic.com

I've been absent from social media and content creation for a bit. A few months back I got a medical diagnosis which has taken a while to digest. I have Common Variable Immunodeficiency (#CVID) which is a rare, and if untreated, potentially life-threatening chronic condition. #chronicillness (1/5)

Thames Valley Police are seeking help in locating heirlooms stolen from an Abingdon resident in his nineties who served in the Army and worked at Pressed Steel in Cowley. They say “the vintage motorbikes are believed to have been advertised for sale online in the Oxfordshire area”.

BSA motorbike stolen from AbingdonModel steam Thames launch stolen from Abingdon

If you think this can’t happen, remember that of the 125,000 Japanese Americans who were interned during WWII for years without charge or trial, two-thirds were U.S. citizens. Including me.

The image is a screenshot of a tweet from Brandon Bradford (@BrandonLBradfor
). The tweet reads: "Deporting Americans without due process then saying they no longer get due process because they aren’t in America means no one has rights, FYI. Nightmare scenario."

The great insight in the corporate and government push for RTO is that most organizations don’t know how to measure productivity or impact of knowledge work. Even Google. So productivity boils down to hours spent in an office building.

💥 BREAKING: At John Deere's annual shareholders meeting today, shareholders overwhelmingly rejected an anti-DEI proposal brought by the same group that targeted Costco and Apple. An anti-DEI proposal from the NCPPR received less than 1 percent of votes. Deere shareholders: DEI is in. Bigots are out

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